Frontiers in Neurology, 2019 Background: Agoraphobia was described in 1871 as a condition of fear-related alterations in spatial orientation and locomotor control triggered by places or situations that might cause a patient to panic and feel trapped.
Iole Indovina +2 more
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Evidence for chronic low-grade systemic inflammation in individuals with agoraphobia from a population-based prospective study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 BACKGROUND:Anxiety disorders have been linked to an increased risk of incident coronary heart disease in which inflammation plays a key pathogenic role.
En-Young N Wagner +8 more
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Inferiority or Even Superiority of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy in Phobias?—A Systematic Review and Quantitative Meta-Analysis on Randomized Controlled Trials Specifically Comparing the Efficacy of Virtual Reality Exposure to Gold Standard in vivo Exposure in Agoraphobia, Specific Phobia, and Social Phobia [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Background: Convincing evidence on Virtual Reality (VR) exposure for phobic anxiety disorders has been reported, however, the benchmark and golden standard for phobia treatment is in vivo exposure.
Theresa Friederike Wechsler +2 more
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Agoraphobia and panic attacks complicated by primary aldosteronism improved by treatment with eplerenone: a case report [PDF]
BMC Psychiatry, 2023 Background Primary aldosteronism (PA) is an adrenal gland disease, that induces increased secretion of the mineralocorticoid, aldosterone, resulting in symptoms such as hypertension.
Reoto Kijima +4 more
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Prevalence of panic and agoraphobia in post COVID-19 patients [PDF]
International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2023 Background: COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine of people who were tested positive made more cautious and anxious when being out in public. This study concentrates on the prevalence of panic and agoraphobia using panic and agoraphobia scale. Methods: Survey
Vijay K. Kumar +2 more
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Gender differences in psychopathologic features of agoraphobia with panic disorder [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2006 Background/Aim. To examine gender differences in the major psychopathologic features in agoraphobia with panic disorder. Method. The study was conducted as a clinical study.
Latas Milan +2 more
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Agoraphobia and the modern learner [PDF]
Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2014 Read/write social technologies enable rich pedagogies that centre on sharing and constructing content but have two notable weaknesses. Firstly, beyond the safe, nurturing environment of closed groups, students participating in more or less public network-
Jon Dron, Terry Anderson
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Depersonalization and a severe form of agoraphobia: A case report and review [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction Depersonalization during panic attacks may be a feature of a subgroup of Panic disorder. Several studies suggest that such subgroup corresponds to a more clinically severe form of Panic Disorder, with earlier onset and a higher rate of ...
C. Pedro Fernandes, B. Jorge, D. Freitas
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